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The Painted Egg
Prompt 1


Solo or RP Format
Counts as 5 RP growth Points
Solo word minimum is 750, RP post minimum is 7

Spring has arrived in Tendaji; in most places flowers were blooming while others might only see a slight temperature increase. The weather was nice so you decide to take a stroll. As you leave town and enter a small clearing, you notice strange colorful dots all throughout the grass.

"Oh stop right there!"

Freezing, you stop with your foot hovering just a breath above the grass and then as you slowly take one step backwards you notice that something colorful had been nestled against the ground. What was this? A Gaein girl comes forward and offers a big smile, "Thank you for stopping! You nearly crushed the egg." From there she explains that the whole field is full of colorful eggs that she had spread out for the villagers to find. Apparently in Belrea this time of year is a time for festivities and one of their most popular games is finding brightly dyed eggs that children create with their parents who later hide them away. As a member of the Academy she had been granted permission to come and share this knowledge with those in Tendaji and so offers to allow you to play with those already shifting through the wide expanse of fields.


[ Roll a 1d20 to determine what happens during your hunt!]
1. You are reaching out for an egg when it suddenly floats away! What in the? But then you notice wings behind it. A sprite is trying to steal your egg away!
2. You find a total of 8, totally normal, painted eggs!
3. You pick up what appears to be an egg but doesn't have the same weight a normal egg should have and you notice a line down the center. As you pull the two halves apart, a strange vial [an eye of the goddess] falls out!
4. You find a total of 2, totally normal, painted eggs!
5. You pick up an egg but later begin to smell something foul coming from your bag, it seems that you picked up a rotten egg!
6. You feel a bit competitive and run around as fast as you can to collect every egg, too bad a little boy just left with a basket full!
7. Oh no, watch your step! You accidentally step on and break an egg!
8. You find a total of 10, totally normal, painted eggs!
9. You find an extra large egg hidden in some tall grass. Later, it hatches into a Xaraan!
10. You're a little late to the party, all the younglings have already gathered all the eggs before you even got a chance, how sad!
11. You find a total of 5, totally normal, painted eggs!.
12. You hear a quiet scratching noise coming from a slightly larger painted egg you just picked up. It later hatches into a Sailscale!
13. You find a total of 1, totally normal, painted egg!
14. As you're walking, you hear a strange noise coming from the bushes. A keldari pops out at you! Whether you get startled or just shoo it away, a few eggs fall out of your basket and crack as they hit the ground.
15. You find a total of 3, totally normal, painted eggs!
16. You're walking towards a particular egg when you feel something beneath your foot as you take a step. Whew! Close call, you move your foot and the egg remains unharmed and you add it to your basket!
17. You find a total of 15, totally normal, painted eggs!
18. You feel your basket start to wiggle a bit and then hear giggling. As you look down, you see a youngling taking your eggs! They make off with 4 of your eggs before you have a chance to stop them!
19. You find an unpainted egg. Figuring it's not a part of the egg hunt, you leave it alone and continue on.
20. It seems that something is weird about one of the eggs you've picked up. As you stare at it the egg begins to wobble and even glows from the inside?! It later hatches into a Sitara!

"Oh stop right there!"


"What? Why?" Subira blinked as she paused mid-step and looked around to make sure she hadn't wandered somewhere she wasn't meant to be. All she had wanted to do was go for a nice quiet walk. Why was she being yelled at? The young alkidike turned her attention to the oddly colored girl that she knew to come from that one place with the flying boats. Was it Belrea? She had never seen them but had heard enough about them from others that they seemed like something she would want to see for herself. Maybe one day she would make the trip to see one of those things in action.

As the girl explained about the tradition from her homeland Subira looked around and noticed the others that had already begun their searching and the hints of color that seemed to speckle the grasses. "Interesting.." Was all she got our before the girl moved away from her to someone else who was coming their way. The alk could only assume the girl meant to stop them from stepping on the eggs as well. Which was lucky for them since no one really liked stepping on the things. Once they broke and you got the yolk on your shoe or foot it was there for the rest of the day and a pain to deal with. She'd had the misfortune of doing such a thing when she was a youngling. Worse sticky feeling ever to have between ones toes.

The thought of her toes made her look down to the egg that the girl had claimed she had almost crushed. It was her intent to pick it up from the ground and claim it as her own. Except... there was no egg. This caused Subira to furrow her brow in mild confusion. Either the girl had gone mad or the egg had took it upon itself to roll away for it's own protection. Something Subira doubted had happened. So where in Aisha's name had the thing gone? Laughter sounding somewhere off to the side made the girl look toward the small gaggle of younglings showing off their eggs to one another. A straggler was joining them proclaiming they had found another and saved it from the giant foot of an Alkidike.

Giant foot!? Subira looked at her foot then and frowned deeply. Her feet were not that big. Feeling a bit self conscious then she huffed and moved along. This time keeping her gaze down to make sure she didn't almost take out another egg. Though she would have liked to collect one or two and take it home to show her mothers. They might even want to keep it just because of the colors. So as she looked she did her best to see if there was an egg laying about that she might like or be able to snatch up before the others did. Spotting one not too far off from where she was Subira looked around then headed for it. She was she be beat by another youngling, though, as they snatched it off the ground then paused long enough to stare at her with wide eyes.

It made her stare back in an awkward silence, like a contest of sorts had been started. Did they think she would be upset that they had gotten the egg first? Well, Subira had to admit she was disappointed but she would never be mad at a child. Not for something so small. When she blinked the kid must have taken that as her defeat because they turned and ran off with squealing laughter, waving the egg in the air frantically as though it was their war prize.

Silly little things. She found herself rolling her eyes and laughing as she thought of her siblings. Now this was something they might enjoy. Maybe she should go get them before all the eggs were taken? Or she could just tease them by saying she got to participate and they didn't? Nah, she wasn't that mean to them. At least not yet. Maybe when they got older.

Since it seemed like she was no match for the quick footed younglings that were running around collecting the eggs she decided it was best for her to move out of their way. Subira couldn't see herself taking an egg from them since the game looked as though it was the best thing they had ever discovered. Which was far beyond cute.



WC - 750